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Initially I hated the stripe, and while I still don't love it, photos like the one from bapster make me actually appreciate the bit of color it adds to the view.

I didn't realize some of the units have all-season(?) balconies.

As the maker of the map, I 100% agree it’s fantasyland. That’s how I roll

I hadn’t considered the East station for serving through routes because I didn’t think it would be close enough to downtown. But adjacent to TCF and the Green would work. Cool.

Getting Rid of the 394 ramps into downtown would be a nightmare for the ABC ramps. I assume you mean the 3rd/4th Street viaducts, not the 394 ramps, because I'm definitely not suggesting we do the latter. That said, C Ramp I can see (no pun intended) being affected, but I can't imagine too many com...

P.S. Since I wrote ^ that, I revised the idea a bit to fix the streets and rail at the west/north end. Angling 4th past 10th allowed me to connect Napco with 3rd and clean up the rail switches and curves. The Dropbox link is the same as above.

Lots more words below. FWIW, I'm not arguing, just trying to address your thoughtful concerns. I guess I was considering connectivity for Dan Patch and other "Commuter" rail options for the Minneapolis hub and leaving longer inter-city rail to SPUD. I also completely missed your planned co...

^ Same. mrs.shoes and I have been "planning on" subscribing for quite some time now but just haven't done it. $100/year would have been done already.

I guess that just illustrates how ridiculously narrow they used to be

Excellent questions, all around. I tried to account for all your concerns ahead of time, but didn't explain any of the grade details in my original post. Is this new station at the elevation of the existing viaducts? That would mean moving trains from a trench moving up to elevated platforms and tha...

The primary advantage of this is eliminating the need to back out of a station and allowing for through-running west/north <--> east/south. While I didn't show it explicitly, I'd like to think plenty of development could be done above any sort of station which replaces the viaducts. But you're absol...

Here's my previous North Loop redo updated to take into account a rail station in the ROW of the removed viaducts. Unfortunately, it starts from the same base map as the previous version, which I did in 2013. I added Dock Street Flats, T3, and the new Hines North Loop Green proposal, but development...

Maaaaaybe, if they do the facade remodel in chunks, it'll end up looking less monolithic?

"Excavate bedrock? You can do that?"
—Opus, probably.

Start with this: Here's an idea I came up with maybe a decade ago. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1IHFzzeD0FDr4J5gNsCjf6zW1Bi0&usp=sharing Tear down the viaducts and run the tracks down that corridor instead of between 5th and 7th. There should be enough room for one or two long platforms. The...

Furthermore, we'd want any _really_ intense transit hub-ness to be underground. Let's work on on the densification that makes a transit hub necessary rather than setting aside phenomenally valuable land for it maybe someday sorta happening.

Wow is right. That would be amazing.

Opportunity to force the issue of getting rid of the viaduct? I want to see Google Earth with this and the Gateway project.

Time for me to readdress my no-viaduct fantasy map

Can verify it’s open. Drove over it yesterday. Sidewalks look pretty puny.

Man, I-94 needs to be buried or capped or *something*

I struggled a lot with the WB one-way because I don't want to give in to the idea that the Parkway is a commuter route and auto traffic should be prioritized. At the same time, I think split one-ways give the creek and the trails the prominence they deserve. So I started with that as a baseline and ...